Scottish Executive

Registrar General for Scotland

Rhona Brankin (Midlothian) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive when the Registrar General for Scotland will publish his Annual Report for 2003.

Hugh Henry: Scotland’s Population 2003: the Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends is published today. As well as containing information about births, deaths and marriages, the report focuses on migration, which is one of the issues affecting the make-up of Scotland’s population. A copy of the report is available in the Scottish Parliament Reference Centre (Bib. number 33281), or from the GROS website at www.gro-scotland.gov.uk .